hawing

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/00cj2gI4Dk6Cn/350x.jpg You can't see the number 1 above, but you know it's there. Ripped from today's headlines! http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRWm7HzsV6RA-vnNkuUNB93UxYt6UsKnEyIaGLHVUhvO8l_zpz3-Q Just what we've been wanting to see. Zero, my hero. This thread is terrific.

We got home a little after 1:00, turned on FSW and the replay was in the 8th inning. Convenient. So we watched that up until they cut off the postgame stuff for their Time Life Music paid programming (genius), and since then I've been reading this thread and other internet happiness. I've enjoyed this day a great deal, but I'm struck by how unsurprised I was at how things turned out. I mean, seriously, Ryan walked up in the 8th and I said to myself, well, this is what Ryan does. Boom. Then the Brewers' game ended, we had a happy wait just long enough for me to use the bathroom, highfive some peeps, and take more photos. Then boom, confetti everywhere. I mean, everywhere. I am honestly expecting to undress tonight and find confetti inside my clothes. It was all over us. There were blue and gold streamers like in 2008, and I think more than in 2008. I geek out on noticing and capturing ballpark minutiae, and this is my favorite detail of the night: Something made me turn around to look at the WTMJ booth just as Cory Provus was pumping his fist like crazy while obviously looking at the monitor to his left. Then I realized the TV in the press box was showing the CHC-STL and Soriano trot. That news spread wildly through the press box sections just before the out-of-town scoreboard was updated. I only hope Chris Carpenter's son is doing all right tonight. Congratulations, Brewers. Edit: If you are not sold on the "Playoffs" caps, there is a NL Central Champions cap that looks much more like what I was dreaming of since 1983 or so. I'm not ashamed to say I bought one from a trailer set up by the front of the Brewers/Braves parking lot after the game. I am mildly embarrassed what I paid for it. However, I am still considering sleeping with the cap on. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

With apologies for the double post, how weird is it that the Mets, Cubs and Marlins have such bearing on the Brewers' late-September results again?

After 3/4 of a work day mixed with lots of thinking about baseball, I'll be leaving soon for Milwaukee. I'll paraphrase what seemed to work in 2008: Dear Brewers: You know what's within your reach. You can get at least halfway there tonight. Have fun, and good luck. Best wishes, hawing

That's a perfectly valid opinion; it's just that you've shared it a lot recently, so I think we already know how you feel about it. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif Certainly we can all agree that the sooner the Brewers clinch, the better. Now, back to the numbers! http://www.eightpointsnineseconds.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/298649052_2b17d5bec9.jpg Even if it doesn't happen tonight...how awesome would it be if part of the key was a Chris Carpenter loss tonight?

It came on a 2-2-2 count. So the Cardinals were one strike away.

Friday in 217. Saturday in 330 (with thablingster; should be epic). Sunday in 217. Monday in 417. Wednesday in 417. Bring it!

A Super Bowl score with Green Bay in it! I know what that means. /squealing/

This is kind of neat if you live or have ever lived in the Green Bay area. TV 2 represent! http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQh9qT4j2PqFWycFl1IVO82i1x9ubhUmW_bIhQ43n7VWgOkWMmBNg

I need to quote this just so my signature can appear with it. (the first part, of course)

http://cbsnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/justin-turner.jpg?w=300 Sweet merciful crap. Thank you, Mets...for getting Chris Capuano off the hook. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif http://img1.timelines-se.com/photos/images/59d6eac8ea8c01e23827c34c1bec3e2b_three_column.jpg http://product.images.fansedge.com/34-38/34-38454-Y.jpg http://www.sewterific.com/images/12MBDaysofChristmas/2TurtleDoves.jpg http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/v-for-victory.jpg

And a potentially lengthy one at that. Maybe this is Mother Nature's way of icing them.

Wouldn't it be nice if Chris Capuano could help out the Brewers today? (hawing said hopefully)

I got to see a Royals/Tigers game at Kauffman this year. It really is a beautiful ballpark. The fountains in the outfield are really cool, and for those with kids, the Royals have a pretty impressive children's play area behind the outfield. Definitely worth making a trip down to KC if you can. Bonus for us was getting to see Ned Yost get ejected, just like in the old days.We visited Kauffman in 2002 or so and enjoyed it. That was before its renovation, which combined with the prospect of seeing the Brewers and the various ex-Brewer Royals, has me rather tempted to make that exact road trip in 2012. You can also take Amtrak from Chicago to KCMO in about seven hours, if you roll that way.

The Mets are bugging me tonight.

I only have Uecker myself, but it sounded like Nyjer misjudged the ball. Could have been the wind, could have been Nyjer, maybe some of each.

I'm just now starting to follow Gameday. Bruised arm? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/frown.gif

1-0 for Wednesday, Brewers! I'd love to see some V-for-victory signs, turtle doves and Bill Hall images later this afternoon.

It was 997Yeah, I realized later it was only #1000 in the moderator-view. Still, I had the 360 bomb playing at home for a few minutes last night and couldn't stop giggling. Finally, a good memory to go with Ned Yost.

It clashes with the more typical athletic-uni font in MARLINS above, though. I agree, the font of "Marlins" is terrible. I'd find it more palatable if they used the Marlins M font for the word Marlins as well - like they did in the Marlins Ballpark logo.

It clashes with the more typical athletic-uni font in MARLINS above, though.

If I were a Marlins fan, I think I'd stock up on as much of the outgoing-logo merchandise as I could, to get me through the coming bleak (logo) years. My goodness.

I don't think I would enjoy a MIL-STL playoff series. The one in 1982 was tolerable, but that was my first year following baseball closely and I flat out didn't know better. When I think of the TLR mindgames going into overdrive...ugh. I'd like to think that if there is any team on earth whose prospects the Cubs would be motivated to spoil, it would be the Cardinals. So there's that (hawing said hopefully).

Oh, please, let this be post #1000.

http://www.sewterific.com/images/12MBDaysofChristmas/3FrenchHens.jpg Three is a magic number. Yes it is, it's a magic number. Somewhere in the ancient mystic trinity You get three, as a magic number. The past and the present and the future Faith and hope and charity The heart and the brain and the body Give you three as a magic number. It takes three legs to make a tripod Or to make a table stand. It takes three wheels to make a vehicle Called a tricycle. Every triangle has three corners, Every triangle has three sides. No more, no less. You don't have to guess. When it's three you can see It's a magic number.